Re: [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer

Hi! > Maybe a good difference might be > > * Patches touching main/, TSRM/ or Zend/ require 2/3rd > * Patches touching only individually SAPIs or exts require 50% I'm not a big fan of over-formalizing things and thus setting up ourselves for the trap of rules being used against the rules' original purpose. I think nobody can deny this is a big change in the core. For big changes we need big consensus. For small changes - even if the change happens to be in a file stored in main/ - simple majority is enough. I don't know if it is workable anymore or not, but so far PHP has always been governed by consensus, and trying to find a way of governing itself that is acceptable to the people composing the group. I think voting 50%+1 on such a big thing is not good, especially given that everybody from 50%-1 that was against it and continues to work with the core will have to support the consequences of it for years to come. I think that was the main driver between distinction on 50%+1 and 2/3 - if the change is going to influence PHP in a way that nearly everybody working with PHP has to deal with - it requires broader consensus. If it's localized and can be handled in isolation from the other things - majority is ok, if you hate it, you can work in another corner :) -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227